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94th
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| 94th MP Battalion History | |||||||||||||||||
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 94th MP Battalion DI |
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| (Source: Email from Dick Burch) | |||||||||||||||||
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ORGANIZATION (Dec 1966): |
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| [1] STATION LIST, 31 Dec 1966 | |||||||||||||||||
| On July 1 1971, four (4) more units were assigned to the 94th MP BN: the 94th MP Detachment, the 189th MP Company in Miesau; the 64th MP Detachment in Worms; and the 545th MP Platoon, which was transferred from Bremerhaven to Mainz. On 31 March 1971, the 285th MP Company, Baumholder was re-designated as Company A, 94th MP N; 533rd MP Company, Kaiserslautern was re-designated as Company B, 94th MP BN and the 537th MP Company, Mannheim was re-designated as Companies C, 94th MP under TOE 19-35. The 94th MP BN remained deployed west of the Rhine and provided support to three (3) Area Provost Marshals (APM’S), the 17th MP Detachment/Area Provost Marshal (APM) North Baden Area, Turley Barracks, Mannheim; the 20th MP Detachment/Area Provost Marshal (APM) Palatinate Area, Kaiserslautern; and the 60th MP Detachment/Area Provost Marshal (APM) Rhineland Pfalz Area, Baumholder, Germany. The 94th MP BN was inactivated 21 June 1976 in Germany. |
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| If you have more information on the history or organization of the 94th MP Bn, please contact me. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Headquarters & Headquarters Detachment, 94th MP Bn | |||||||||||||||||
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| Co "A," 94th MP Bn / 285th MP Co | |||||||||||||||||
| (Source: Thomas Lyons Carr, III, 537th MP Co - A Co, 94th MP Bn - 545th MP Pltn - C Co, 94th MP Bn ) | |||||||||||||||||
| In May 1971 I was assigned to the detached platoon from the 537th MP Co as
an Assistant Military Police Patrol Supervisor from the 977th MP Co, 508th
MP Bn at Ft Riley, KS. The platoon was barracked at Camp Pieri (Freudenberg
Kaserne) across from Schloss (Castle) Freudenberg in Wiesbaden-Dotzheim, a
suburb overlooking the City of Wiesbaden (on the Air Force (east) side of the Rhine), supporting the MP station at Dragoner Kaserne in Mainz and the 60th MP Detachment/Area Provost Marshal (APM) Rhineland Pfalz Area, in Baumholder, Germany. As you noted in 7/1971 (my 201 File has a date of 710630), while I was still trying to learn my way around were we were reassigned, in mass, to Company A, 94th MP from the 537th MP Co. Then on 710726, the detached platoon, in mass, was assigned to the 545th MP Platoon (really re-designated, since I do not really recall anyone transferring from Bremerhaven. Rumor had it that the 545th Railway MP Platoon) and attached to Company A, 94th MP. Then on 730402, the detached platoon, in mass, returned to the Company C, 94th MP. With most of the unit on the east (wrong) side of the Rhine and had a mission that included supporting the Air Force, which gave the planners fits. The city of Wiesbaden had a population of 270,109 and the City of Mainz had a population of 182,870 at that time. Most of our day-to-day roving off-post street/road patrols were limited the Mainz Metropolise area and its suburbs. In most cases the 8th MP Company or "unit police" handled on post, we would be called in to conduct the preliminary investigation. But we did get to do some strange tours of the country-side or on Autobahns in M151s. |
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| Co "B," 94th MP Bn / 533rd MP Co | |||||||||||||||||
| (Source: Email from Chuck Carter, 533rd MP Co, 1964-67) | |||||||||||||||||
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I have a few other photos and have sent some of them on to Robert Gunnarsson in the past. He might, or might not, use them. I have some photos of Little Nato Day, 1966, that show some of the other police jurisdictions in Zweibrucken. Participating were the Canadians, French, Germans (Feldjaegers and three or four different downtown policemen....even an autobahn motorcycle cop in his leathers), and the Americans (MP's, C.I.D., and an AP from the 6901st Special Communications Group). It was either a one or two day affair, held downtown behind the Zweibrucken Festhalle.
I hope others will send you more info on the 94th. I'm anxiously waiting for Gunnarsson to finish his research on the 533rd and any research he does on the 94th MP Bn.. |
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| (Source: Paul Owens, via Dick Burch) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Co "C," 94th MP Bn / 537th MP Co | |||||||||||||||||
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| 189th MP Co | |||||||||||||||||
| (Source: 4. Weapons Depot Security MP Units, Robert Gunnarson, MB) | |||||||||||||||||
| From 1967 until 1976, the 189th MP Company was stationed at Miesau Ammo Depot where it provided security duty for the special weapons area. During that period, the company was assigned to several different higher headquarters, but always with the same mission and the same station. Activated in France in 1965, the 189th was stationed at Trois Fontaine and was respo0nsible for security at several supply depots. As part of Operation FRELOC, the company was moved to the ordnance depot at Miesau in Germany in 1966. At Miesau, the company assumed security responsibilities for the special weapons area. On July 1 1971, the 189th was one of several units that were attached to the 94th MP Bn. |
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| (Source: Email from Brent Becker, 189th MP Co and Co B, 94th MP Bn) | |||||||||||||||||
I wanted to pass on my compliments for your web site, in particular the MP related area. I was with the 189th MP Co, 94th MP Bn from Oct. 1974-Mar 1976, then moved to Co B, 95th Bn/66th MP Co from Mar 1976 to May 1977. I am attaching a couple of photos from my time in Germany.
Thanks for the memories.
Brent Becker
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION At that time the 189th had a patrol dog section and the 164th (MP Co) had a sentry dog section at Miesau. Merchant ships off loaded military equipment in Bremerhaven, such as helicopters, tanks, munitions, etc. All of the MP units in Germany took turns sending people to pull guard duty on the ship, the docks and the marshalling yard until all the equipment was shipped out by rail. The same cars transported all of us from Frankfurt to Bremerhaven. We drove to Frankfurt in deuce and a halfs to catch the train. On this particular venture (Photo #9) the SS American Ranger was the ship. We got our meals on the ship, but slept in the rail cars, 3-4 men in a compartment. Ironically, while there a Soviet ship was docked next to ours. Rather funny since the soviet crew was taking movies and photos of the entire off loading operation. (See also the Miesau section on the Kaiserslautern Page (Kaserne section) for additional photos from Brent Becker.) |
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